Jet Man: The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, Genius of the Jet Revolution
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About
The story of Frank Whittle – RAF pilot, mathematician of genius, inventor of the jet engine and British hero.
In 1938, a thirty-one-year-old RAF pilot and engineer named Frank Whittle – given special leave to pursue his own startlingly original concept of flight – presented the Air Ministry with a written proposal for a revolutionary jet-powered fighter aircraft. A ready response might have changed the course of history, but Whittle got no reply.
In this gripping and insightful biography, Duncan Campbell-Smith charts Whittle's success at building a pre-war jet engine against all the odds – and tracks his desperate struggle to have it launched into active service against Hitler's Luftwaffe. It arrived too late – but nonetheless transformed the future of aviation.
- ISBN:
- 9781788544696
- Publication Date:
- 2021-02-01
- Publisher:
- Head of Zeus Ltd
- Language:
- English
- Page Count:
- 534
- Size:
- 9.5" l x 6.25" w x 2.0" h